Fans already knew the upcoming Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One features an elaborate train crash, but a new behind-the-scenes video shows how they pulled off the off-the-rails action.
In a new featurette on the film, director Christopher McQuarrie and star Tom Cruise detail the showstopping stunt. The sequence takes place on a train that ridden by Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and Esai Morales’ Gabriel.
In typical Mission: Impossible fashion, the scene is as practical as can be. The crew actually built a working train for the actors to fight on while it traveled at upwards of 60 mph. The end of the scene then sees the train crashing off of a destroyed bridge — also practical!
Check out the behind-the-scenes look at Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One below:
What is Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One about?
“Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands,” reads the official synopsis of the film. “With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission — not even the lives of those he cares about most.”
Joining Cruise and Hayley Atwell are returning Mission: Impossible alums Rebecca Ferguson (Doctor Sleep), Simon Pegg (Ready Player One), Ving Rhames (Pulp Fiction), Vanessa Kirby (Hobbs & Shaw), and Henry Czerny (Ready or Not) along with newcomers Shea Whigham (Joker), Pom Klementieff (Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Avengers: Infinity War) and Esai Morales (La Bamba, Titans) who will replace Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) for the villain role.
The Mission: Impossible franchise spans almost 25 years and six films, with modest critical and major box office success in the first two films. It went on to launch its lead into more explosive stories, with each film doing progressively better than its predecessor. The most recent installment, Fallout, earned the highest reviews for both the franchise and the action genre — currently maintaining a 97% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
